J-RISE: Relevant Implementation Strategies to Eliminate the Social and Structural Barriers to HIV Services Among Justice-involved Black Men Who Have Sex With Men and Other Key Populations

Description

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare two interventions - Health Navigation and Health Navigation Plus among individuals who have been impacted by the criminal legal system. The main question it aims to answer is: • Compared with the Health Navigation group, are participants in the Health Navigation Plus group more likely to a) access HIV care, treatment, and prevention services and employment services and b) access employment services and be employed in community? Participants on the study will be: * Randomly assigned (like a flip of a coin) to participate in either Health Navigation or Health Navigation Plus. Participants will have an equal chance of being placed in either group. * Complete three surveys over the course of 13 months * Participants in the Health Navigation group will have two in person meetings and seven check-ins with the health navigator over 6 months * Participants in the Health Navigation Plus group will have two in person meetings and seven check-ins with the health navigator over 6 months, two in person and 10 check ins with the employment navigator over 12 months and up to $200 to support employment and career development needs and receive up to $140 to support health goals. Samples of blood, urine and swabs may be collected to meet the health goals.

Conditions

HIV, Contingency Management, Justice Involved Populations, Status Neutral Interventions

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Study overview

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare two interventions - Health Navigation and Health Navigation Plus among individuals who have been impacted by the criminal legal system. The main question it aims to answer is: • Compared with the Health Navigation group, are participants in the Health Navigation Plus group more likely to a) access HIV care, treatment, and prevention services and employment services and b) access employment services and be employed in community? Participants on the study will be: * Randomly assigned (like a flip of a coin) to participate in either Health Navigation or Health Navigation Plus. Participants will have an equal chance of being placed in either group. * Complete three surveys over the course of 13 months * Participants in the Health Navigation group will have two in person meetings and seven check-ins with the health navigator over 6 months * Participants in the Health Navigation Plus group will have two in person meetings and seven check-ins with the health navigator over 6 months, two in person and 10 check ins with the employment navigator over 12 months and up to $200 to support employment and career development needs and receive up to $140 to support health goals. Samples of blood, urine and swabs may be collected to meet the health goals.

J-RISE: Relevant Implementation Strategies to Eliminate the Social and Structural Barriers to HIV Services Among Justice-involved Black Men Who Have Sex With Men and Other Key Populations

J-RISE: Relevant Implementation Strategies to Eliminate the Social and Structural Barriers to HIV Services Among Justice-involved Black Men Who Have Sex With Men and Other Key Populations

Condition
HIV
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Chicago

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. be at least 18 years of age;
  • 2. self-identify as African American, Black, or multi-ethnic Black;
  • 3. be a cisgender female, or a cisgender male, or a transgender-identified or gender fluid individual;
  • 4. if cisgender male, must identify as gay, bisexual, same gender loving, queer, questioning, pansexual and/or report same sex attraction or sex with another man in the last 24 months and if cisgender female must report opposite sex attraction or previous sex with men in the last 24 months;
  • 5. currently reside or intend to reside in Cook County, Illinois, New Orleans area, or Baton Rouge area;
  • 6. be able to provide informed consent in English and complete the study in English. In addition, potential participants must:
  • 7. be currently incarcerated in jail or prison and report an expected release within 90 days, or under community supervision, or report a recent incarceration within the last 12 months, or in the last 12 months has been stopped, searched, physically or verbally abused, or had any negative interaction with law enforcement that did not lead to an arrest or jail or prison time, AND has not already been linked and/or retained in HIV or PrEP care in the community;
  • 8. report needing employment-related services; and
  • 9. have a confirmed HIV positive or negative status (within 90 days of enrollment) and if HIV negative meets one of CDC's PrEP indications (i.e., sexually active, needle sharing, previous STI history in the last 24 months)25 or plans to have sex in the next 12 months or wants more information about PrEP.
  • 1. unwilling/unable to provide informed consent,
  • 2. does not live or intend to live in one of the study locations,
  • 3. unable to confirm HIV status,
  • 4. unable to conduct the study in English, and
  • 5. currently enrolled in another intervention to support HIV care, PrEP care, and economic stability.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Chicago,

Russell Brewer, DrPH, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Chicago

Study Record Dates

2028-06-30